The Messenger service sends and recieves messages not using the NetBIOS protocol, but RPC. Therefore, you need to block port 135 to stop the messenger.
As many others have said, you could also just turn the service off. I haven't seen anyone mention Black Viper as a resource for explaining what could be shut off and how to do it.
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This would be ideal. It has an LCD display, programmable keypad, and does floating point, so Ogg is possible.
To a certain degree, this already exists. Freenet is supposed to be an anonymous system. All it really needs is a good indexing engine to help you find interesting things that people have inserted that are on the system, but without knowing the key, are unavailable to download.
I think it has more to do with the fact that people who are renting a lot are obviously watching more movies.
That's one theory. Another theory would be that these people are "pirates" who rent the movies from Netflix, rip them to MPEG, save them on their hard drives, and share them P2P. Then, they just return the disks and get new ones.
Maybe Netflix is taking some heat from the MPAA and is trying to limit those who go through the media too quickly.
Part of the problem is that/. didn't post this important story to the front page and instead decided other stories were more important. Honestly it blows.
That's strange, because I saw this on the frontpage and was curious as to why there were so few comments. Any idea why some people would see it on the frontpage and others wouldn't?
At the time I posted this, there was 1 other comment (and not a FP, BTW). It seems obvious to me that no one really cares about a webcaster getting screwed.
Oh sure, when a story shows up on/. about it, 500 people post to say how outraged they are. But, when there's a forum for actual discussion about how to fix the problem, no one bothers to comment?
Perhaps it's because we've all decided to say "screw it" and just download our music using our favorite P2P software and not bother with streaming webcasts?
Maybe the NSA secured their Windows server, causing it to slow down?
OT, can we "please" modify the/. setup on repeat postings? 2 minutes between postings on any 1 story = OK. 2 minutes between postings on different stories != OK.
People seem to be complaining that vegetable oil costs more than regular diesel fuel. That's probably because there isn't enough supply of, for example, soybeans to process into soybean oil.
Why the "shortage" (at least as it pertains to use as a fuel)? Because soybean prices are terrible, so farmers lean toward producing something they can make more money at (corn, livestock, etc.)
Provided this starts to take off, there could be a higher demand for soy-based oils for fuel sources, thus encouraging more farmers to produce more soybeans, and with more supply to match the demand, pricing would stabilize, if not come down (depending on the amount of increased soybean production).
Note: all of the above could also be applied to corn and the production of Methanol as a fuel additive insted of synthetic chemical additives.
For future reference, to show HTML/XML tags in an HTML formated posting, you have to use "ampersand lt semicolon" to get "<" and "ampersand gt semicolon" to get ">" around the tag.
I had to read source to find out what your complaint was.
Codeweavers calls the product "Crossover" That is exactly what it's supposed to be used for; crossing over to Linux. You maintain your comfort level with applications you already know, and when the time comes to upgrade, thus requiring you learn something new, you can consider upgrading to an open solution (OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, insert favorite open source application here). Crossover is a safety blanket for those leaving the Windows world until they get used to Linux. If anything, this will encourage the adoption of Linux as a desktop platform.
Congratulations to Codeweavers on 2.0 and good luck on the path to 3.0. (Just don't call the following versions 3.1 and 3.11)
As far as MySQL goes, I have nothing against it.
I grew up on Sybase and Oracle systems, so picking up PostgreSQL was easy as pie. I still haven't had enough motivation or time to pick up MySQL idiosyncracies. And I just don't see a future with MySQL or any other database like I see with PostgreSQL.
This, I think, is the key point. For those who have database experience, PostgreSQL is a fine database product. For those with no previous database experience, the power and terse nature of PostgreSQL is a hinderance.
I think that MySQL has done a better job of making an easy "starter" RDBMS. Is it the best thing on the planet? Probably not. If you start using MySQL and decide you're beating your head against the wall to do some particular thing, should you consider switching to PostgreSQL? Absolutely. Could the PostgreSQL people make it easier to start with? Sure.
About S1M0NE...I just watched this movie last weekend. The problem with completely CG "actors", is that, at some point and time, the computer guy is going to do something stupid that tips people off that they're actually watching a CG "actor", not a human.
In the movie, at the awards show, S1M0NE won an award, and being CG, couldn't be live at the show. So, she appeared via satellite from some 3rd world country where she was doing "Charity work". In the background, there's a "huge" wind storm, and her behavior and hair is perfect (not blowing around, no wind noise in the mic, etc.) The sad thing was that no one in the audience picked up on this.
I think that if Hollywood were to go completely CG, and not tell people, they would screw something up like that and people would catch on. Besides, who wants to mess with an actor's union anyway?
The real benefit is that (at least the way I use it), you start a somewhat long running job in a window in the background (file download, build on a remote system, etc). Bring something you want to work on to the foreground, and set about a 10% transparency to the window. Now, when you want to, you can quickly focus your attention to the background task, without switching windows, then return your attention to what you're working on.
If you have Win2K, or WinXP, vitrite for Windows is a great utility to provide this transparency. And you can select which window and how transparent each window is. Very cool.
Ok, I don't get it. Gnome 2 is good enough for SUN Solaris, but not HP-UX? Which OS has a larger user base? (seriously, I don't know and a quick search turned up little) If SUN is willing to put it's faith into the Gnome developers and their own, why wouldn't HP just ride the coatails and get a good Gnome 2.0 for their OS as well?
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The Messenger service sends and recieves messages not using the NetBIOS protocol, but RPC. Therefore, you need to block port 135 to stop the messenger.
As many others have said, you could also just turn the service off. I haven't seen anyone mention Black Viper as a resource for explaining what could be shut off and how to do it.
This would be ideal. It has an LCD display, programmable keypad, and does floating point, so Ogg is possible.
Now all I need is a job and some $$$ :(
Isn't that the definition of the BSA?
To a certain degree, this already exists. Freenet is supposed to be an anonymous system. All it really needs is a good indexing engine to help you find interesting things that people have inserted that are on the system, but without knowing the key, are unavailable to download.
FYI: Google results for the following:
I hardly think that google results for "sco sucks" should count as proof.
Mine's also set at 30. Not sure what the deal is? Another /. bug?
That's one theory. Another theory would be that these people are "pirates" who rent the movies from Netflix, rip them to MPEG, save them on their hard drives, and share them P2P. Then, they just return the disks and get new ones.
Maybe Netflix is taking some heat from the MPAA and is trying to limit those who go through the media too quickly.
Now venturing into OT territory:
That's strange, because I saw this on the frontpage and was curious as to why there were so few comments. Any idea why some people would see it on the frontpage and others wouldn't?
At the time I posted this, there was 1 other comment (and not a FP, BTW). It seems obvious to me that no one really cares about a webcaster getting screwed.
Oh sure, when a story shows up on /. about it, 500 people post to say how outraged they are. But, when there's a forum for actual discussion about how to fix the problem, no one bothers to comment?
Perhaps it's because we've all decided to say "screw it" and just download our music using our favorite P2P software and not bother with streaming webcasts?
Maybe the NSA secured their Windows server, causing it to slow down?
OT, can we "please" modify the /. setup on repeat postings? 2 minutes between postings on any 1 story = OK. 2 minutes between postings on different stories != OK.
People seem to be complaining that vegetable oil costs more than regular diesel fuel. That's probably because there isn't enough supply of, for example, soybeans to process into soybean oil.
Why the "shortage" (at least as it pertains to use as a fuel)? Because soybean prices are terrible, so farmers lean toward producing something they can make more money at (corn, livestock, etc.)
Provided this starts to take off, there could be a higher demand for soy-based oils for fuel sources, thus encouraging more farmers to produce more soybeans, and with more supply to match the demand, pricing would stabilize, if not come down (depending on the amount of increased soybean production).
Note: all of the above could also be applied to corn and the production of Methanol as a fuel additive insted of synthetic chemical additives.
Look at all of the programs that already perform the same task as this program. What does Tiger do that all of the above listed programs don't do?
In other words, what will make this become a "killer app" and not just another "also ran"?
For future reference, to show HTML/XML tags in an HTML formated posting, you have to use "ampersand lt semicolon" to get "<" and "ampersand gt semicolon" to get ">" around the tag.
I had to read source to find out what your complaint was.
Codeweavers calls the product "Crossover" That is exactly what it's supposed to be used for; crossing over to Linux. You maintain your comfort level with applications you already know, and when the time comes to upgrade, thus requiring you learn something new, you can consider upgrading to an open solution (OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, insert favorite open source application here). Crossover is a safety blanket for those leaving the Windows world until they get used to Linux. If anything, this will encourage the adoption of Linux as a desktop platform.
Congratulations to Codeweavers on 2.0 and good luck on the path to 3.0. (Just don't call the following versions 3.1 and 3.11)
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This, I think, is the key point. For those who have database experience, PostgreSQL is a fine database product. For those with no previous database experience, the power and terse nature of PostgreSQL is a hinderance.
I think that MySQL has done a better job of making an easy "starter" RDBMS. Is it the best thing on the planet? Probably not. If you start using MySQL and decide you're beating your head against the wall to do some particular thing, should you consider switching to PostgreSQL? Absolutely. Could the PostgreSQL people make it easier to start with? Sure.
Thank you. Once again the concept of "comic exageration" is lost.
/me is going to start labeling everything with [humor] [/humor] tags, just to be sure from now on
Imagine one of these built by the same people who build those 400HP Honda Civics with the coffee can exhaust and 3' high spoiler.
Slashdot maintains its duplicate story support.
P.S. The "2 minute warning" on /. posts should be limited to 2 minutes between posts in a single story
About S1M0NE...I just watched this movie last weekend. The problem with completely CG "actors", is that, at some point and time, the computer guy is going to do something stupid that tips people off that they're actually watching a CG "actor", not a human.
In the movie, at the awards show, S1M0NE won an award, and being CG, couldn't be live at the show. So, she appeared via satellite from some 3rd world country where she was doing "Charity work". In the background, there's a "huge" wind storm, and her behavior and hair is perfect (not blowing around, no wind noise in the mic, etc.) The sad thing was that no one in the audience picked up on this.
I think that if Hollywood were to go completely CG, and not tell people, they would screw something up like that and people would catch on. Besides, who wants to mess with an actor's union anyway?
The real benefit is that (at least the way I use it), you start a somewhat long running job in a window in the background (file download, build on a remote system, etc). Bring something you want to work on to the foreground, and set about a 10% transparency to the window. Now, when you want to, you can quickly focus your attention to the background task, without switching windows, then return your attention to what you're working on.
If you have Win2K, or WinXP, vitrite for Windows is a great utility to provide this transparency. And you can select which window and how transparent each window is. Very cool.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
That's 105%!
Ok, I don't get it. Gnome 2 is good enough for SUN Solaris, but not HP-UX? Which OS has a larger user base? (seriously, I don't know and a quick search turned up little) If SUN is willing to put it's faith into the Gnome developers and their own, why wouldn't HP just ride the coatails and get a good Gnome 2.0 for their OS as well?
For the humor impaired, this is a joke. I don't bill people $100/hr for my services, and I wouldn't consider reading /. as billable anyway.
Is it really to the point where you have to explicitly tell someone something is meant to be humorous?
I did too. I thought "Wow, NASA's back to animal experimentation in space." Followed by, "I wonder what PETA thinks about that."
Oh well, back to the morning soda.
Can we sue Taco & crew for posting duplicate stories? I wasted 5 minutes of time on this article. My time is billed at $100/hr. Taco owes me $8.33